Two-way satellite internet access has been around for a while now. The biggest problem for satellite internet has been (and will always be) the high latency.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but what they hey.
Before the introduction of the Mobile Radeon 9600/GeForce 5600 Go generation of laptop graphics chips, dell did not support upgrading laptop graphics (the 8x00 series included, though the 8200 was the last 8x00 to use the older generation chips). I believe that currently, the only laptop that dell offers graphics upgrades for is their XPS laptop line (in fact, it's one of the selling points).
The ONLY company that offered upgrades to earlier graphics chips was Alienware (to my knowledge, unless someone can prove me wrong) because alienware used special mounts so they did not have to solder the chip to the motherboard.
I used to own an 8200 so I DO know a little something about what I am talking about.
Swaping video chips on laptops is not a smart idea. The graphics chip in a laptop is specifically set for that laptop's hardware. Changing video chips will generally break quite a few systems. I would be surprised if you got a signal to even the laptop's display.
On the other hand, since you can't actually swap the graphics chips on older laptops, I call bullshit on your story.
Just for reference, I have been using ATI's linux drivers with my M9 equiped laptop since I got it last January, and I have had no problems running the neverwinter nights linux client and unreal on it, and the second display works perfectly. Maybe you should actually try the products out instead of engaging in ATI bashing. I personally do not engange in brand preference because it's irrational. Maybe you should actually TRY an ATI card before comment on one.
What they usually mean is that you will be able to use the card in older MMC devices, just not at full speed. You will be able to use the card at whatever speed your older device can attain. In your case though, it may have been a defect in that particular device. I have used newer memory cards with my older cameras and slot readers without any trouble.
Not if you make your own. It is always cheaper to produce than to buy. And the workstation will be used for cell processor platforms, which includes the PS3.
Besides, why Power Macs? There are less expensive workstations out there that are just as powerful, especially if you go with a large vendor like dell or HP.
umm... The PS3 isn't finished yet! I'm assuming by the content of your post that you are talkin about the new PS2 multimedia center box they released last year.
1. When buying from Apple (or from any middleware company, for that matter), you will end up paying extra because of the markup so that Apple can make money. IBM and Sony both have the capabilities to produce their own hardware systems, which is ultimately cheaper in the long run.
2. The G5 processor is IBM's chip, not Apples. IBM already has the hardware to make their own systems using the PPC 970 (G5) processor. Again, they do not need to go through the middleman and pay the mark up if they want to use a PPC 970 based system.
3. The cell processor will be used in many more systems than just the PS3. An operating system and development platform will be needed to develop for the new platform. It's in IBM's interest to develop these tools quickly, and preferably long before it launches its own cell processor based produces.
And finally... 4. Developers need a test system to run and debug their programs on. It is much easier to use a native system than to use emulation on a completely different platform.
That underlying social problem is something the rest of us call opinions
No, not opinions, problems. Like poverty and famine for example. These specific issues are never seen in the western world, so we do not place them high on our priorities. We are more concerned with defending ourselves against threats that are not likely to come, or will only arise as a result of weapons development.
Because it is wasteful and will lead to another arms race.. So a U.S.-Isreal team develops. Now. someone will develop energy absorbing/reflecting/deflecting/whatever missiles. Then another defense system, then another missile to defeat it. Wash Rine, and Repeat, and we have another cold war.
Instead of using the money to develop new defense systems, they could have used the money to tackle the underlying social problems that cause the "bad men" to be mad at us in the first place. This way, we solve the underlying problem that facilitated the need to create the defense system. Its much more effective to plug the hole in the bottom of the boat, instead of just continuously bailing the water out.
Those aspects you "believe" about physics are proven scientific facts. Faith is holding something as true without the presence of supporting data or evidence. With regards to gravity and celestial orbits, you do not have "faith", you have an understanding of the supporting evidence. You cannot have faith in something that is proven true.
Not only that, but Apple is threatening them under U.S. law. I don't know if the state of U.S.-India relations allows for the enforcement of more recent U.S. copyright laws in India, but I seriously doubt it
Would apple even be able to enforce this, and does a U.S. court even have duristiction?
Uploading is perfectly fine. The Judge in this case is clarifying the grey area that existed in Canadian copyright laws with regards to file sharing and the Private Copying extension to the Copyright Act. The Private Copying extension to Part 8 of Canada's Copyright Act allows people to make copies of other people's CDs/Tapes/Whatever for their own personal use. The judge is just clarifying the act by saying that file sharing falls under this law. This happens all the time with other laws as new technologies and ideas become mainstream, technologies and ideas that could not have been considered when the law was written. If file sharing had been prominent in Canada when the extension was written, it may have very well been mentioned as being legal (or illegal for that matter) in the Private Copying extension.
Well, quickly checking over the Audio Lunchbox site, I see that they provide samples from each track that you can listen to before buying them. You can listen to samples from each artist to find those that you like. No more gambling.
Copyright is an exclusive right to control commercial usage and anything non-commercial SHOULD not have anything to do with copyright at all
But the intended commercial use of CDs IS to be sold to consumers and for those consumers to listen to them. Your statement would hold true for say, a student pirating Adobe Photoshop, which is a program that is intended to be used by businesses and graphic professionals. Your statement would only make sense if music CDs were primarily targeted towards businesses, corporations, etc. and not towards private citizens, which is clearly not the case
Test report prepared under contract from Apple Computer
Second paragraph on the second page of the report PDF:
Apple provided all the systems for the testing. Because the Power Mac G5 was still under development at the time we conducted the tests, a VeriTest analyst conducted all testing of the Apple Power Mac G5 system at the Apple facility in Cupertino, CA
As I said before, I will wait to see unbiased testing before I form my opinions of the G5's performance, testing done by people who are not being paid by Apple, and in a neutral testing facility. I would not trust this report without independent verification, just like I wouldn't trust a report commissioned by AMD or Intel without a second opinion. Companies will do what they must to show their products in the best light
The Xeons have been based off the P4 core for a while. The name 'Xeon' is just a marketing brand by intel to differentiate their workstation and desktop processors. And still,even the P3s had 48-bit memory addressing.
You're quoting statistics from apples site? Don't you think that those statistics would be a little biased? Lets wait until the review sites dig into the G5s before we declare anything.
Easily mod-able game engines, while allowing non-professional programmers to essentially create their own games, are the shackles to which game creativity is bound.
I think the folks who developed this nice Marble Madness mod for Unreal Tournament 2003 would disagree with you. A game engine is just a complexe program for rendering graphics, sounds, etc. You can use it to power any type of game you want, with the proper skill, resources, and time.
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Two-way satellite internet access has been around for a while now. The biggest problem for satellite internet has been (and will always be) the high latency.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but what they hey.
Before the introduction of the Mobile Radeon 9600/GeForce 5600 Go generation of laptop graphics chips, dell did not support upgrading laptop graphics (the 8x00 series included, though the 8200 was the last 8x00 to use the older generation chips). I believe that currently, the only laptop that dell offers graphics upgrades for is their XPS laptop line (in fact, it's one of the selling points).
The ONLY company that offered upgrades to earlier graphics chips was Alienware (to my knowledge, unless someone can prove me wrong) because alienware used special mounts so they did not have to solder the chip to the motherboard.
I used to own an 8200 so I DO know a little something about what I am talking about.
Also, I'm assuming that the "thousands" part of the above quote was supposed to be "dozens".
Point taken. Zealotry would have been a better word to use in this situation.
Swaping video chips on laptops is not a smart idea. The graphics chip in a laptop is specifically set for that laptop's hardware. Changing video chips will generally break quite a few systems. I would be surprised if you got a signal to even the laptop's display.
On the other hand, since you can't actually swap the graphics chips on older laptops, I call bullshit on your story.
Just for reference, I have been using ATI's linux drivers with my M9 equiped laptop since I got it last January, and I have had no problems running the neverwinter nights linux client and unreal on it, and the second display works perfectly. Maybe you should actually try the products out instead of engaging in ATI bashing. I personally do not engange in brand preference because it's irrational. Maybe you should actually TRY an ATI card before comment on one.
What they usually mean is that you will be able to use the card in older MMC devices, just not at full speed. You will be able to use the card at whatever speed your older device can attain. In your case though, it may have been a defect in that particular device. I have used newer memory cards with my older cameras and slot readers without any trouble.
Itanium's don't run X86_64, they run IA_64.
Not if you make your own. It is always cheaper to produce than to buy. And the workstation will be used for cell processor platforms, which includes the PS3.
Besides, why Power Macs? There are less expensive workstations out there that are just as powerful, especially if you go with a large vendor like dell or HP.
umm... The PS3 isn't finished yet! I'm assuming by the content of your post that you are talkin about the new PS2 multimedia center box they released last year.
No, for several reasons.
1. When buying from Apple (or from any middleware company, for that matter), you will end up paying extra because of the markup so that Apple can make money. IBM and Sony both have the capabilities to produce their own hardware systems, which is ultimately cheaper in the long run.
2. The G5 processor is IBM's chip, not Apples. IBM already has the hardware to make their own systems using the PPC 970 (G5) processor. Again, they do not need to go through the middleman and pay the mark up if they want to use a PPC 970 based system.
3. The cell processor will be used in many more systems than just the PS3. An operating system and development platform will be needed to develop for the new platform. It's in IBM's interest to develop these tools quickly, and preferably long before it launches its own cell processor based produces.
And finally...
4. Developers need a test system to run and debug their programs on. It is much easier to use a native system than to use emulation on a completely different platform.
Wow, what an ignorant statement. Please, enlighten yourself before you make such prejudiced remarks
No, not opinions, problems. Like poverty and famine for example. These specific issues are never seen in the western world, so we do not place them high on our priorities. We are more concerned with defending ourselves against threats that are not likely to come, or will only arise as a result of weapons development.
Because it is wasteful and will lead to another arms race.. So a U.S.-Isreal team develops. Now. someone will develop energy absorbing/reflecting/deflecting/whatever missiles. Then another defense system, then another missile to defeat it. Wash Rine, and Repeat, and we have another cold war.
Instead of using the money to develop new defense systems, they could have used the money to tackle the underlying social problems that cause the "bad men" to be mad at us in the first place. This way, we solve the underlying problem that facilitated the need to create the defense system. Its much more effective to plug the hole in the bottom of the boat, instead of just continuously bailing the water out.
Those aspects you "believe" about physics are proven scientific facts. Faith is holding something as true without the presence of supporting data or evidence. With regards to gravity and celestial orbits, you do not have "faith", you have an understanding of the supporting evidence. You cannot have faith in something that is proven true.
Ah, that clears a few things up (guess I should RTFA more closely next time!)
Not only that, but Apple is threatening them under U.S. law. I don't know if the state of U.S.-India relations allows for the enforcement of more recent U.S. copyright laws in India, but I seriously doubt it
Would apple even be able to enforce this, and does a U.S. court even have duristiction?
Uploading is perfectly fine. The Judge in this case is clarifying the grey area that existed in Canadian copyright laws with regards to file sharing and the Private Copying extension to the Copyright Act. The Private Copying extension to Part 8 of Canada's Copyright Act allows people to make copies of other people's CDs/Tapes/Whatever for their own personal use. The judge is just clarifying the act by saying that file sharing falls under this law. This happens all the time with other laws as new technologies and ideas become mainstream, technologies and ideas that could not have been considered when the law was written. If file sharing had been prominent in Canada when the extension was written, it may have very well been mentioned as being legal (or illegal for that matter) in the Private Copying extension.
Well, quickly checking over the Audio Lunchbox site, I see that they provide samples from each track that you can listen to before buying them. You can listen to samples from each artist to find those that you like. No more gambling.
I think the AC was referring to Microsoft-only video card manufactuers, of which there aren't any.
But the intended commercial use of CDs IS to be sold to consumers and for those consumers to listen to them. Your statement would hold true for say, a student pirating Adobe Photoshop, which is a program that is intended to be used by businesses and graphic professionals. Your statement would only make sense if music CDs were primarily targeted towards businesses, corporations, etc. and not towards private citizens, which is clearly not the case
The guy who submitted this obviously couldn't figure out the 'Select Operating System' field.
From the report PDF:
Second paragraph on the second page of the report PDF:
As I said before, I will wait to see unbiased testing before I form my opinions of the G5's performance, testing done by people who are not being paid by Apple, and in a neutral testing facility. I would not trust this report without independent verification, just like I wouldn't trust a report commissioned by AMD or Intel without a second opinion. Companies will do what they must to show their products in the best light
The Xeons have been based off the P4 core for a while. The name 'Xeon' is just a marketing brand by intel to differentiate their workstation and desktop processors. And still ,even the P3s had 48-bit memory addressing.
you != smart ;)
You're quoting statistics from apples site? Don't you think that those statistics would be a little biased? Lets wait until the review sites dig into the G5s before we declare anything.
I think the folks who developed this nice Marble Madness mod for Unreal Tournament 2003 would disagree with you. A game engine is just a complexe program for rendering graphics, sounds, etc. You can use it to power any type of game you want, with the proper skill, resources, and time.